Southbank Centre is a place that stimulates, inspires, educates and amazes with a dynamic year-round artistic programme and an inclusive ethos. The UK’s largest arts centre and one of the UK’s top 10 visitor destinations, Southbank Centre presents a broad programme covering classical and contemporary music, art, performance, dance, literature, festivals and talks. It reaches 6.25 million people a year, and presents over 5,000 events featuring world-class artists from across the globe. Southbank Centre sits in London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the southern bank of the Thames.The site is home to the much loved Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Hayward Gallery, National Poetry Library, and Arts Council Collection of visual art, as well as all the indoor and outdoor performance, cafe and retail spaces in between.We are looking for an experienced Commercial Events Officer to join our Commercial Events team. This is a great opportunity for someone with event management experience, who is well organised and shares Southbank Centre’s belief that the arts should be available to all, to join our Commercial Events team at an exciting time for our organisation.Following two years of refurbishment and some much needed tender loving care Southbank Centre’s 1960s buildings, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Hayward Gallery, will be reopened in early 2018. The Commercial Events team manages all aspects of commercial venue hires across Southbank Centre as well as cultivation/fundraising and other internal events, and as we scale up our commercial events function following reopening we are looking forward to welcoming another Commercial Events Officer to the team.As Commercial Events Officer, you will be involved with all aspects of event planning and delivery, from taking initial enquiries and conducting site visits, to liaising with internal and external service providers to make all necessary arrangements and managing the event on the day.Well-organised, with excellent project and time-management skills; the ideal candidate will already have experience of event management (ideally from working in a similar venue or organisation) and will be able to pick up the complexities of a multi-venue site quickly.  Able to demonstrate an understanding of sales and income generation; you will have experience of selling an artistic venue as a commercial space and be confident in your ability to balance the sensitivities around this. With excellent interpersonal skills, you will be able to communicate and work well with a wide range of people with tact and diplomacy, including Southbank Centre’s key stakeholders.